#there's still more we can stick in there

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

So... I think the new special should take place in that small period of time during Risk between when Adrien is rejected by his father for the breakfast he had scheduled months prior, and when Marinette shows up late and then hides behind a dumpster

[turtleblogatlast]

Something about this kind of swimming getup for characters always immediately gives me transmasc vibes. Blue swim trunks and a tank top? Sorry man my brain already connected the dots. The vibes are there, and they’re not leaving.

[ratatatastic]

Vanha Kauppahalli date: en full, a 2 minute 50 second masterpiece...

Primetime Panthers | 11.6.24 (x)

[kyouka-supremacy]

I think we should just bring back Wungo Wednesday and start a fandom collective anime rewatch

[theoryandahalf]

Holy Shit! This was soooo good! To go from not knowing who Matpat is to making such a detailed short film of his life in like a month is so incredible. I hadn't heard of Sticks before Matt mentioned them on GTLive but damnnn they are so incredibly talented!

Also we get a Matpat short film if these guys get a million subs?!

[aroaceleovaldez]

i mean it when i say we've gotta bring back askblogs. bring back making character chat posts with poor choice text colors over random backgrounds. bring back blogs dedicated to what outfits you think characters would wear.

fandom is an ecosystem, not a numbers game. these types of blogs/posts/etc still exist in concept, because people still want to make them and they're a great way to get your thoughts of an idea out in a simple format, but most people make them on like tiktok or instagram reels and that's where the problem lies. Those videos don't go anywhere. The format doesn't allow for the discussion to spread through the community and they're less likely to be engaged with in general. And to make them most people have to either show their face or figure out editing software, so the barrier to entry is higher (editing) and/or they have to forfeit an amount of privacy.

those types of posts/blogs are the first rung of the ecosystem. they're the perfect environment for younger members of the fandom to begin safely interacting with the larger community and putting their own thoughts and ideas out there. roleplay is the other major spot for that and those communities are diminishing as well, honestly (if you know of an rp forum board site, cherish it. and if you can make one, make one). they allow younger fans to begin engaging with the source material on a different/deeper level, but still at a very low barrier to entry, and begin conversations with other fans, which also helps them build skills which in turn may encourage them to pursue other avenues within the fandom (fic writing, other formats of askblog - which itself usually leads to art, cosplay, also fic writing, etc). Without those places to build those skills, they might feel discouraged from trying to begin when surrounded by curated people who have built their skills up for years.

And those conversations they foster also in turn help the community, by offering ideas to artists or fic writers to extrapolate on or building community jokes. And that text/blog format specifically is extremely beneficial, because it allows younger members of the fandom to remain anonymous and keep their privacy without concerning themselves with having any platform or having anything attached to them (very important for young fans figuring themselves out and navigating online community spaces for the first time, since they can remove themselves from spaces easily if they decide they don't like it and they're protected, rather than PUTTING THEIR FACE ON THE INTERNET). And those posts they make will spread a lot more into the community since they're in a significantly easier format to be reposted (few people are gonna be reposting tons of random short-form videos versus spamming their instagrams with reposts of 10 random fandom images yoinked from tumblr, or reposting to pinterest or something). Like, don't repost art, at the VERY least don't repost without credit, but also I am not ignorant to the fact that my art is not just the first google image result for "pjo pride" and related searches, but also the 4th, the 6th, the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, etc etc., and pops up in the search results before the official ReadRiordan does simply because people reposted my work more (most with credit, thankfully).

For fandom to be a community, it needs to perpetuate itself. There needs to be engagement with one another and conversation. If that bottom rung is cut off, then new fans won't be able to grow into the other niches of the fandom, and the fandom will be solely reliant on the source material and die out extremely quickly, and there won't be a community. There's no conversation! There's no reason to stay beyond the original material! But if you don't have points of entry for new fans, they won't have any way to build the skills needed to move into those niches, or engage with the community in a healthy way.

tl;dr: Bring back askblogs and character-based text post blogs. They are vital to fandom ecosystem.

[lala-blahblah]

I will never make this because it would be for an audience of one (me) but ever since reading "If we Were Villains" (story about serious drama kids in college who perform shakespeare and deal with a murder) I have been entertaining the thought of a crack fic crossover with High School Musical The Musical The Series where the staff decides they will no longer put on shakespeare after the tragic accident that happened at Thanksgiving, because Shakespeare plays would only increase the tension and drama. So they hire Ms. Jen who decides their spring play will actually be High School Musical (which exists in the 90s in this universe) and it ruins the vibe so much that everyone gives up on being dark and mysterious because they're universally pissed at Ms Jen for making them learn choreoraphed basketball dancing.

[hanzajesthanza]

dandelion is indeed the worst but if he’s not present in the next book i would legitimately be sorrowful as the whole thing will become a slog . you basically cannot have the “short stories” era-of-the-timeline iteration of geralt without dandelion, it would be like eating unbuttered bread.

though it’s not like season of storms did them dirty, i wasn’t disappointed with it (… with regards to them), but since it’s literally been over 20 years since the saga was finished i’m trying to prepare for any potential reality

[poorlittleyaoyao]

A thing about trying to plot out QS canon-divergence fixit where the marriage is averted is that the obvious solution to “she was already pregnant before they knew the truth” is, well, end the pregnancy. The wider world doesn’t seem to know that she’d conceived prior to marriage, so can’t be more than a month or so along as of the wedding for it to be plausible. People have been inducing abortion in dire circumstances despite physical risk and moral stigma throughout history. QS has magic at her disposal and the means to remove herself from society unnoticed during the recovery period, and even if it’s taboo, is it more taboo than incest?

[yardsards]

a pet headcanon of mine is that after they're done with the sigil removal, emira expands her horizons and starts studying the psychological side of healing, pulling in some resources from the human realm and combining it with boiling isles methods (i imagine the field of psychology in the boiling isles, while existent, was often pushed aside as just a lesser branch of the healing coven back when belos was in charge. i do imagine there's often magic like the memory tweezers involved)

and i imagine she ends up focusing in on like, art therapy and self-expression, because she knows how important that can be, after having her individuality stifled so hard when she was young

[sticks-stones-sonic-insanity]

First time drawing Maria!! I've been meaning to for a while, but it was the prologue animation clip rotating in my brain ever since it dropped that finally pushed me to do it lmao. Love her!!

[soath]

Obviously, DnD characters are wish fulfillment and lots of people don’t want to address the slow senescence of the vulnerable human form in their fun games. That being said, narratively, I do think that levels should probably fluctuate over the course of a lifetime. The level twenty world-saver is going not going to stay level twenty into their old age—that’s not how athletes and retirement work! Wisdom and Charisma casters maybe, but your STR/CON/DEX builds are going to soften with age. They might still be the spryest bastards in the old people tai chi group, but “terrifyingly in shape 70 year old” is not the same as “deadliest man on the planet”. Drop those old folks a few levels, give them some creaky bones and presbyopia. It’s good for them, promise.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i just spent the last like hour going through all the lights out au stuff and im OBSESSED rn PLEASE

i'm not sure how to help you! enjoy the brainrot

[opikiquu]

aventurine pl. Plea s e . PLLEEEEEEASE

[ratatatastic]

"Day one, you immediately said you don't believe in the thought of a hangover, you don't. What is—from that point, day one when you got back to now as you close in on that opener—makes you feel that that's true?" "I think it's a perspective. Well, a couple of things that I think would be important: had we not tested—so we'll test these guys hard—had they not put the effort into testing hard that would've been a red flag for me. So we're there physically. The question will be is: How do you perceive the adversity of the year? And that's where it changes. So I'll give an example. The last two seasons in November we've gotten into—on a road game—into a Western Conference team that wasn't very good and didn't make playoffs, and we lost. Then if it happens and we're in there in November again this year and if we lose: it'll be the hangover. That will be everybody's perception. It'll be exactly the same as the last two years. So how we perceive our adversity, and then how we act on our adversity will be how we define our team." "At what point do you—if at all—say 'Okay, that was last year, that was great. Trust me, we'll always embrace it but this is this year and we can't mingle the two.' Or do you embrace it? Kind-of mingling the fact that 'Hey, you're the Champs!' and what you just experienced?" "These men have earned to enjoy some of the things that come along with becoming a Champion and the Ring Ceremony on Monday night will be a really big part of that. We want to be fully able to enjoy it, it's been earned. What we don't want to do is feel that what we earned last year will have anything to do with the next night when we open against Boston. The puck gets dropped, the game demands certain things no matter whether you won or you lost last year. There's a certain number of things that you have to do to expect to win and we're gonna to have to be prepared to do that." "Did the fact that you are the hunted more so than the hunter—and obviously you're hunting for another title—but everywhere you go it's like, 'Hey, the Champs are coming to town,' 'Hey, the Panthers—that's the team we got to beat, they're the Champs.'" "It's an interesting thing that you say that because there was—I was reading an article today about the Top 5 Forward groups in the National Hockey League and our guys aren't part of it. So we're still, I think, lurking that—there is an expectation and that's where maybe the danger of why people will say it's so difficult to repeat. I don't believe that. It's exactly the same level of hard as we like to say, to win. It's just that your expectation—feel you won last year so somehow this should be easier and it won't be." "You talked so much last year about finally getting that taste of that all year. So now obviously you love the game, it keeps you going, you love being around the team but how much did winning last year change you—if at all—as you enter this new year? Do you sense anything? Do you feel anything as a coach that burden or pressure or cloud—whatever you want to call it?" "It's a great question and I've been looking for it, I'm trying to monitor. The driver for that to me is these guys works so hard, and in their effort they deliver this prize and you get to be a part of it. They did all the work, I get to be a Stanley Cu—I get my name on the Cup. I don't want to be the weak link here so at the same time because I'm aware of that, I got to also be mindful that I'm not a Berserker every day so that nobody thinks I'm being casual. So I got a job to do, I want to be the guy that prepares just like them, they work hard all summer I want to make sure that I'm driving as hard as I can, and they know that I'm not being casual about this."

Chasing the Cup (WPLG Local 10) | 10.6.24 (x)